University assistant dean defends critical race theory: 'All White people are racist'
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Brandeis University Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs Kate Slater defended the teaching of critical race theory, saying, "All White people are racist."
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"Yes, all White people are racist in that all White people have been conditioned in a society where one's racial identity determines life experiences/outcomes and Whiteness is the norm and the default. That includes me!" Slater said in a Saturday Instagram post.
Slater also made sure to clarify that while she doesn't "hate White people," she does hate "Whiteness."
Her comments come as debate rages across the country about the teaching of critical race theory, which several states have now either banned or have proposed legislation to ban in public schools.
"'Debates' about critical race theory," Slater said, "are often straw men for debates about whether or not systemic racism is real. And no number of statistics or facts that I could offer are going to convince people to 'see' systemic racism if they don't want to."
But critical race theory has faced fierce opposition from Republicans, with Rep. Burgess Owens saying that school officials who push the theory should be fired.
"Fire them. Get rid of them," said Owens, who is black and grew up in the Jim Crow South. "That ideology is against everything we believe in. We need to fire everyone we can find, and those we will fire, later on, we'll figure out a way to get rid of them, too."
Slater also maintains a website that describes her as "a White anti-racist scholar and educator."
"Her doctoral research centers the experiences of underrepresented minorities students in higher education, and in particular, at predominantly White institutions," the website adds. "She also investigates White racial identity formation and how racism operates individually, organizationally, and systemically. She leads facilitations, trainings, and affinity groups with K-12 institutions and universities, as well as with numerous private organizations."
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CRT is some of the biggest load of horse manure of this decade! I say this as someone who self describes ethnically from Heinz 57 to out and out mongrel! Slater is nothing more than a self hater seriously in need of psychotherapy!
A 'decade' 2 whole years old.
Oh and BTFW, CRT isn't new to this decade. It's been taught and studied for generations.
I don’t hate stupid academics. I just hate stupidness.
WTF is “whiteness” supposed to be? And if you’re not sure if that’s racist or not, just substitute any other race for white and then lets get some “academic” to pontificate about what blackness or brownness is. Seriously, does anyone love to paint people with the broadest of brushes more than woke leftists?
Woke rightists use the same brush.
Do they? Where is the rightist college professor trying to teach everyone how all black people are?
Whiteness isn't about 'how all white people are'.
A lot of "conservatives" dont want to change, so instead of changing themselves they will act like the "real" problem is critical race theory.
The white viewpoint has been the default point of view in this country forever. That will change and is changing as the demographics change. It is going to be a bumpy ride.
There is a big difference between being born into a society in which systemic racism has conferred certain advantages to a specific race, and being racist.
I prefer to be judged as an individual rather than as part of a group, especially when I had no say in being a member of said group.
The overwhelming amount of CRT defenders have no idea what they are defending. They think it's about teaching kids that slavery existed and was horrible. Or that racism exists and is bad.
It's not. It's about reaching kids to identify with their race and to oppose whiteness if they aren't white and to apologize and make reparations for their whiteness if they are white. "Whiteness" is the default explanation for everything that is wrong with society. It's essentially a conspiracy theory where all whites conspire to operate a system to hold down others. At least the this academic is honest about what it is. It's defenders rarely are.
And if you ever start to take CRT seriously, look at which racial group is the highest earning in America. If you are rational, you'll see how preposterous the premise of CRT is.
No, not even close in either sentence. Critical Race Theory posits that race and racism are embedded in our laws and public policy, so they are still affecting the outcomes for people of color, and we, as a nation, should look at that.
What if a white Assistant dean had said something critical about blacks?
They would have been terminated instantly.